150 words come out when you unscramble SHOTHOLE, starting with SHOTHOLE itself: 14 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. HETHS and HOOSH are the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SHOTHOLE split into 1 with 8 letters, 7 with 6, 34 with 5, 53 with 4, 39 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 7 letters.
HETHS and HOOSH are the top 5-letter words in SHOTHOLE, 11 points each. HOTEL, TOOLS and SHOOT will look familiar.
Among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SHOTHOLE, HEHS, HETH and HOHS tie for first at 10 points. LOST, TOOL and HOST are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of SHOTHOLE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SH · ending in LE · all 8-letter words
SHOTHOLE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SHOTHOLE, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOTHOLE itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 150) | 125 | 150 | 114 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 25 of them: HOOSH, HOHS, HOH, SHOOLE, TOHOS, HOTE, LOSH, SHET, SOHO, TOHO, EHS, LOTES and 13 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: SHOTHOLE, HOLOS, HOLO, HOO, HOS, SHO, SOH, LOTO, EST, TES and TE.
Each word below uses all the letters of SHOTHOLE and one more.